The Life and Death of Hershl Sperling. More than 800,000 people entered Treblinka, and fewer than seventy came out. Hershl Sperling was one of them Amazingly, he escaped. Why then, fifty years later, did he jump to his death from a bridge in Ediburgh? The answer lies in a long-forgotten, published account of the Treblinka death camp, written by Hershl Sperling himself in the months after liberation and discovered in his briefcase adter his suicide. It is reproduced here in its entirety. Mark Smith traces the life of a man who survived seven concentration camps, and shows what he had to do to achieve this.